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J. M. PRICE. SUBSTRUGTURE FOR RAILWAY RAILS.

No. 519,772. Patented May 15,1894.

INVENTOHH I I I Q I 1" 1l.l1/"' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFI E. A

JAMES M. PRICE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE PRICE RAILWAY APPLIANCE COMPANY, PENNSYLVANIA.

SUBSTRUCTURE FOR RAILWAY-RAILS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 519,772, dated May 15, 1894.

Applica fi May 20. 1893. Serial No. 474,898. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES M. PRICE, acitizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Substructures for Railway- Ralls, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings.

My invention consists of a sub-structure for a street railway rail, embodying novel features, as will be hereinafter set forth and pointed out in the claims that follow the specification.

Figure 1 representsa perspective view of a sub-structureembodyingmyinvention. Fig. 2 represents a transverse vertical section on l ne as, a, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents a perspective view of a chair embodying myinvention. Fig. 4 represents a side elevation of a modification. Fig. 5represents a transverse vertical section on line y, y, Fig. 4. Figs. 6 and 7 represent side elevations of intermediate supports. Fig. 8 represents a transverse vertical section of a modification.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

Referring to the drawings: A designates a sleeper or stringer, which. is supported on cross ties B, and secured thereto by means of metallic chairs and braces O, which are formed of angular plates D, D, and a horizontal plate E, the plates D being spiked or otherwise secured to the sleeper A and tie B, and the plate E being spiked or otherwise secured to said tie, said chairs and braces possesslng lightness with exceptional strength. Passing into the flange or base of the rails are staples F, which are also driven into the sleeper quite low down, thus binding each side of the rail firmly to the supporting sleeper. Where two rails come together, I lay upon the sleeper pieces or sheets G, of copper, brass or other electrically conducting metal, of such width that its edges bend down on each side of the sleeper, under the two rails, thus making not only an absolute roof to the sleeper at'the opening between the rails when parted by contraction, and exeluding alike rain or dirt from lodgment there, but it also makes a perfect electrical the sleeper, near the base thereof. Some of the staples embrace the support H, thus binding the superimposed rails to said support, as well as to the sleeper with unusual strength and security, to the ends of the rails one uniform resistance to their under depressions at that point by carrying the flanges upon its upper rib at one level but also by its own elasticity, forbidding theupward vibration of the rails, which is usual and injurious at that point.

K designates supports intermediate of the supports H the same having at top the ribs L, which uphold the flange of the rail, and wedge in behind said flange, thus assuring the rails to remain with an equal overhang on each side of the sleeper, and foil any disposition to rock upon it. For either of these constructions I may use a sleeper coated with galvanized iron sheeting for some inches from the surface downward, or its metallic equivalent, a creosoted or otherwise prepared timber or wood without preparation, its life being exceptionallylong when thus roofed and covered, and no vertically-driven spikes are employed, or no abrasion is effected by any working or rocking of the rail upon its edges.

The feature of the electrical bond or the electrical connection for conducting a current from rail to rail is not claimed, per se, herein, and forms the subject matter of another application filed by me on the 23d day of April, A. D. 1894.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A metallic support for a rail joint consisting of two parallel ribs attached to each other at the ends and intermediately by metal ribs crossing from one to the other to bind them together with a descending vertical center, usually Vshaped, beneath the lower rib, and spiked to a wooden sleeper at the base, and between the ribs above, to carry at their meeting point upon the upper rib the flanges of two meeting rails, and staples crossing this support and driven above through apertures in the supported flange and below, under and grazing the lower rib, to bind all together, and forbid thrashing of the two rails at their ends, substantially as described.

2. A metallic support for railway rails, resting upon a wooden sleeper, and spiked to it and provided with a horizontal rib at the top, and a central piece, V-shaped and supporting its middle by a spiked base, as a support to the ends of the two rails meeting upon that sleeper, the support attached to the rails, staples crossing it with their upper feet driven through apertures in the flanges of the rails, and the lower passing under and grazing the lower edge of the support, so as to bind the rails and support solidly together and maintain one level for them, substantially as described.

3. A metallic support for railway rails consisting of a frame formed of horizontal bars with connecting ribs, and provided with a depending center piece, said parts being combined substantially as described.

4:. A rail having openings in aflange thereon, a wooden stringer, a metallic support underneath said flange, and staples securing said support and flange to said stringer said parts being combined substantially as described.

JAMES M. PRICE.

\Vitnesses:

JOHN A. WIEDERSHEIM, A. P. JENNINGS. 

